Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Poison

It is difficult to know where to begin, so breathtakingly perverse is this letter from yesterday's Guardian. Pray for the poor woman.

So "faith" schools (ie schools with "values", unlike other, "faithless" schools without "values") are going to be allowed to line up alongside the BNP in promoting homophobia and marriage.

Faith schools will be left free to defy the work of safe sex campaigners; to promote marriage as a desirable zone of unprotected sex (denying actual evidence to the contrary); thereby reinforcing the low human and social status of girls, women and children, and the longheld belief that these lives matter less than protecting religious orthodoxies or offending powerful men.

In the 21st century, the enduring patriarchal power behind the linked projects of misogyny and homophobia (rooted in and promulgated by religions), designed to corral and manage our sexuality and life force within traditional marriage as a disciplinary institution (or celibacy), is being given a pass to carry on "disciplining" and corrupting children's minds and promise.

And this on the day Harriet Harman's equality bill is announced. Time for some joined-up thinking. Time for an outcry. Val WalshLiverpool

5 Comments:

"Safe Sex Campaigners" should be sued under the Trades Descriptions Act, because their products and services don't work. They are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard when put into practice by 14 year olds. I witness the effects of this daily as I work in a school.

Jackie - aren't you too patriarchally oppressed to be spending good procreation time on blogs? Are you raising your consciousness on the quiet? Anyway, I must dash - and plan my next brainwashing lessons, while tackling my ironing pile.